Diagnosis and analysis of a case of cat scratch disease combined with bacterial meningitis in a child

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Cat scratch disease is an infectious disease caused by the invasion of Bartonella henselae into the human body. Its clinical manifestations are diverse, but those presenting with neurological symptoms are rare, and cases of combined bacterial meningitis are even rarer. In this study, we report a case of a child with unexplained fever and neurological involvement, in which conventional anti-infective treatment was...

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• Bacterial Infections and Vaccines
• Bartonella species infections research
• Brucella: diagnosis, epidemiology, treatment
• Infective Endocarditis Diagnosis and Management
• Mycobacterium research and diagnosis
• Streptococcal Infections and Treatments
• Vector-borne infectious diseases
• Viral Infections and Vectors

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Literature Corpus work

c02592d5-6226-5156-ab39-4e1729d09cad

DOI

10.21203/rs.3.rs-2235519/v1